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RE: Xterm compiled with cygnus gcc


Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> In the early days of b18 I tried to build xterm but it wasn't possible 
since
> it didn't have pseudo tty support. Since then Sergey Okhapkin and others 
have
> added many patches to cygwin.dll (including ptty support), so that xterm 
might
> compile by now.
>
> However, Sergey has compiled "rxvt", a xterm look-alike that AFAIK
> only lacks the Tektronix support that xterm has. You should find

It's not possible to compile xterm with cygwin.dll now :-( Xterm does a lot 
of initialisation of X libraries and then does fork(). But static data 
areas of dll's (libX11.dll this case) are not copied to a child on fork - 
it's a cygwin bug. So xterm even if compiles without errors, will not work 
properly.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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